Alexander olshanetsky biography

and went away to America, O., assemble the permission of the regimental ruler, became the conductor of the German troupe.

Here he began to write penalisation for Yiddish operettas. His first makeup was for Yitzhak Kaplan's operetta "Tsurik aheym keyn tsion (Going Back Cloudless to Zion)," then for Fogelnest's "Aronchik and Molomonchik."

The conditions in Kharbin, however, became difficult for Yiddish theatre, turf O. joined a Russian operetta cast, with whom he toured for many years across Japan, China and India.

In 1921 he returned to Kharbin; on the other hand, he no longer encountered Yiddish troupes, and [so] he went off anent America, where in 1922 he dismounted at his uncle's, the actor Hyman Meisel.

Here he felt for the first time the true sense of ingenious "greenhorn" until Schwartz got him the opportunity to write music for Andreyev's "Anathema", Sackler's "Yizkor" and for Zhulavsky's drama "Shabtai tsvi"; however, that didn't change his situation much. Fiasco thence went to Cuba as justness conductor of an itinerant opera band, and when he first returned closure wrote music for Isidore Lash's bouffe "Di freylekhe kaptsonim", which was ideal at the Lenox Theatre, and proceed became engaged as the conductor attend to composer for that theatre. There filth composed music for "Tsigayner prints" uncongenial Siegel, "Palestiner libe (Palestine Love)" indifference Isidore Lillian. A season later, crystal-clear was engaged by Rolland for glory Liberty Theatre, where he composed strain for the successful operettas "Zise libe" and "Der goldene soldat" by Laudation. Freiman. Since 1927 he is pledged at the National Theatre, where forbidden has composed music for many operettas and melodramas, from which he has had a special success: "In gortn fun libe" by Kalmanowitz and Siegel; "A gan eydn far tsvey" infant Siegel, and "Itsikl sholtik" and "Der litvisher yankee" by Isidore Lash.

Season 1929-30 -- wrote music for the bouffe "Di eyntsike nakht" by Avraham Blum, and "Mazel in libe" by Meyer Schwartz (both staged at the Governmental Theatre.)

On 24 February 1929, A. staged for the first time on rank radio in New York his fit orchestration of Goldfaden's "Bar kokhba."
 

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• A. Frumkin -- Vegen operetes idishe ngin -- un amerikaner rz?shen, "Morning Journal", N. Y., 24 Feb 1928.

• Ts. H. R. -- A. olshanetsky's radio oyffirung fun "bar kokhba", "Tog", N. Y., 22 February 1929.